The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of 108 forms of Avalokiteshvara (62): Mahasuryabimba Lokeshvara and represents of the book Indian Buddhist Iconography, based on extracts of the Sadhanamala English translation. These plates and illustrations represent either photographs of sculptures or line-drawing reproductions of paintings or other representations of Buddhist artwork.
108 forms of Avalokiteśvara (62): Mahāsuryabimba Lokeśvara
Fig. 62A: Mahāsuryabimba Lokeśvara
This is figure 62 in a series of 108 forms of Avalokiteśvara from the Macchandar Vahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.
62. Mahāsuryabimba Lokeśvara. He is identical in all respects with No. 61, except that here the god carries two Vajras and the Cakra in his three right hands, and two Utpalas and the bowl of gems in his three left.
Mahācandrabimba Lokeśvara. He is three-faced and six-armed and stands on a lotus. He holds the arrow, the Utpala and the fruit in his three right hands, and the bow, the Vajra and the Cakra in his three left. The head on the top probably represents Amitābha.
The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (The Watchful Lord) also called Padmapāṇi (Lotus bearer) is the spiritual son of the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha. He is one of the most popular Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist Pantheon having as many as 108 different forms [viz., Mahāsuryabimba Lokeśvara].